gold coast desalination plant

Gold Coast Desalination Plant - Wikipedia

The Gold Coast desalination plant is a 125 ML/d (46 gigalitres per year) reverse osmosis, water desalination plant located in Tugun, a seaside suburb of the Gold Coast. It supplies water to the South East Queensland region via the South East Queensland Water Grid. The plant first supplied water to the grid in February...

Gold Coast Desalination Plant, Queensland - Water Technology

The Gold Coast Desalination Plant is a reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination facility located in Tugun, adjacent to Gold Coast Airport, South East Queensland. The plant became operational in February 2009 and was officially handed over to the state government in October 2010. The project required an investment...

Gold Coast Desalination - Seqwater

The Gold Coast Desalination Plant turns sea water into drinking water. As a climate-resilient source of water, the plant supplies drinking water to the Water Grid, and ramps up supply in times of flood or drought, or when conventional water treatment plants are offline. The Gold Coast Desalination Plant, located at Tugun,...

About the Gold Coast Desalination Plant fact sheet - Seqwater

It uses an advanced technology called reverse osmosis to remove the salt. The water produced is called permeate and is similar to distilled water. Permeate is then re-mineralised so it can be blended with other treated water or directly distributed to homes, businesses and industries in the region. Unlike the majority of...

Gold Coast Desalination Plant - Department of State Development

Aug 7, 2012 ... In July 2009, Watersecure commissioned a report to ensure construction compliance with the project brief and related matters for the Gold Coast Desalination Plant. The result of the report was that additional work was undertaken by the constructor to ensure the plant's durability complied with design...

gold coast desalination plant - BEL vessels

desalination plants. Tugun is a beachside suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, with a population above. 5.000 habitants. GOLD COAST. DESALINATION PLANT. Tugun was selected as the preferred site for the proposed plant for a number of reasons. It has the least environmental impact when compared to...

Gold Coast Desalination Plant and The Smart Water Research Centre

Oct 14, 2016 ... Gold Coast Desalination Plant The Gold Coast Desalination Plant, located at Tugun, Gold Coast, Australia, uses reverse osmosis to produce drinking water for the Gold Coast, Logan and Brisbane. Desalinated water is a climate-resilient source of drinking water and ensures a consistent supply of safe and...

Desalination Plant ramps up supply to Gold Coast - The Queensland ...

Aug 12, 2016 ... Desalination Plant ramps up supply to Gold Coast. The Gold Coast Desalination Plant will again be used to supplement the Gold Coast's drinking water supply from Monday (August 15). Minister for Energy and Water Supply Mark Bailey said the desalination plant would be used while the Molendinar Water...

Gold Coast Desalination Plant Tour - Up A Dry Gully

The Gold Coast Desalination Plant can produce up to 133 million litres of pure water a day, equivalent to about. 50 Olympic size swimming pools. Desalinated water is a climate-resilient source of fresh water. It can continue to produce fresh drinking water, even during a drought, ensuring consistent supply of clean, safe...

wsaa seawater desalination - Water Services Association of Australia

reservoir operations. When large amounts of silt affected the drinking water catchments supplying Brisbane in 2011 and 2013 water from the Gold Coast Desalination Plant was brought on line, to meet demand without the need for emergency restrictions. CASE STUDY ONE – THE IMPACT OF INTENSE STORMS – SOUTH...

Billions in desalination costs for not a drop of water - The Australian

Oct 18, 2014 ... Sydney's plant is dismissed as a white elephant, with no water produced since 2012, despite costing consumers almost $200 million a year, or about $100 a year for every water user. In Queensland, the Gold Coast desalination plant built by the previous Labor government at Tugun cost $1.2bn but has...

Desalination Fact Sheet - Australian Water Association

Southern Seawater Desalination Plant (Binningup). 1400. 100. 2012. Water Corporation Website. Queensland. Gold Coast Desalination Plant (Tugun). 1200. 49. 2009. The plant's intake and outlet structure are located approximately 1.5 kilometres out to sea and have become artificial reefs, which are home to a variety of...

The Gold Coast desal plant - ANU Press

By early 2005 the Gold Coast was well on the way to the strictest water restrictions in its history. Lord Mayor Ron Clarke announced in April that Southeast Queensland needed at least six mini-desalination plants, but a Brisbane City Council spokesman pointed out that using recycled water at Swanbank power station would...

How 'drought infrastructure' can help us get through floods

Feb 18, 2013 ... One of the largest such systems has been constructed in South East Queensland, where the 250km-long water distribution “grid” now connects all major water treatment plants, including the Tugun desalination plant, with over 2 million users in the entire region from the Gold Coast to Noosa. The main...

Civil engineering team awarded funds for innovative desalination ...

Jun 27, 2012 ... A University of Queensland (UQ) research project to help improve the cost efficiency of the Gold Coast Desalination Plant was launched earlier this month and is now in full swing. The project will look to identify operational cost efficiencies while maintaining the plant's environmental performance , with a key...

Other Desal Plants in Australia - Sydney Desalination Plant

Gold Coast Desalination Plant. The Gold Coast Desalination Plant, located at Tugun, was completed in February 2009. Reverse osmosis is used to produce drinking water for the Gold Coast, Logan and Brisbane. It can produce up to 45 billion litres per year of drinking water. Visit the Gold Coast Desalination Plant...

Consideration of energy savings in SWRO: Desalination and Water ...

With current plants at 2 kWh/m3, there seems to be only another 0.5 kWh/m3 of further savings available. New plants are now using the new high permeable membrane technology and high efficiency energy recovery devices. The energy consumption of a state-of-the-art existing plant, the Gold Coast desalination plant in...

Seawater Concentrate Management - Bay Area Regional ...

Concentrate Management. Page 18 alternative of choice for the seawater desalination plants in Australia constructed to date (Perth I,. Gold Coast and Sydney discharging over 140 MGD of concentrate), the Australian plants under construction (Adelaide, Perth II and Melbourne – with total discharge volume of over 260.

Maintenance of water infrastructure assets - Queensland Audit Office

May 30, 2013 ... dams, weirs, water treatment plants, and pipelines. It also includes the Gold Coast Desalination. Plant (GCDP) and the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme (WCRWS), termed the climate resilient or manufactured water assets. Recent legislation reforms to the south-east Queensland bulk water...

Seqwater Bulk Water Prices 2015 to 2018 - Queensland ...

(MWAs), namely the Gold Coast Desalination Plant (GCDP) and the Western Corridor. Recycled Water Scheme (WCRWS). Seqwater is also responsible for managing generally limited catchments which surround the water sources and extensive recreation facilities at dams. The Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) Act...

Securing Australia's water supplies - Australia Unlimited

Feb 28, 2014 ... Veolia Water Australia's award-winning Gold Coast Desalination Plant is a project that showcases this strategy. Situated 78 kilometres south of Brisbane, it was the first large-scale desalination plant facility on Australia's eastern seaboard, with the capacity to provide clean drinking water to up to 650,000...

BAUER Foundations Australia - Diaphragm Wall

DESALINATION PLANT, Gold Coast, Australia The Gold Coast Desalination Plant Project is initiated by the Gold Coast City Council and is built to provide approximately 125 mega litres of drinking water to the South East Queensland area. nav_button_yellow.gif more. AIRPORT LINK, Brisbane, Australia Diaphragm Wall for...

From catchment to tap - City of Gold Coast

The Gold Coast way. Lesson 7. Water, water everywhere… Desalination. Water futures – desalination. Lesson 8. A drop in the ocean. Distillation method of desalination. Excursion. The catchment crawl ...... students can explore how water demands are being met through the Gold Coast Desalination Plant. Links to essential...

City of Gold Coast | Water and sewerage services

Although the City is the water and sewerage service provider, the State Government owns the bulk water supply. This includes the Hinze Dam and Tugun Desalination Plant. The State Government sets the wholesale price that the City pays for water, which is passed on to customers. The State Government owns the drinking...

NWA 2012 : South East Queensland : Contextual information ...

During the 2011–12 year Seqwater supplied water from the Gold Coast Desalination Plant and Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme. The Queensland bulk water transport authority, LinkWater, transports potable water from Seqwater treatment plants and surface water storages through bulk transmission pipelines for...

A holistic approach to water supply network operation – using ...

Seqwater is one of AustraliaTs largest water businesses, with one of the most geographically spread and diverse asset bases. This includes 37 water treatment plants (WTPs), more than 600 km of bulk water supply pipeline, and the Gold Coast Desalination Plant (GCDP) constructed as part of the South East Queensland...

Barge From Gold Coast Desalination Plant @ Tugun Qld | Flickr

Aug 11, 2010 ... The high seas caused problems with the already-troubled Gold Coast Desalination Plant with the barge attached to the plant's derrick coming adrift and “landing” on Tugun Beach. For your interest, I have also attached courtesy of Wikipaedia, the “story” of this ill-fated desalination plant. The Gold Coast...

Desalination barge washed onto Tugun Beach Gold Coast ...

Look what locals found on Tugun beach. If you went for an early morning walk this morning you would have seen the desalination barge that was secure over the weekend now sitting on the beach. Barge on Tugun Beach 2010. Rough seas over the last couple of days have brought some excitement to quiet Tugun.

Water treatment plant maintenance | Metal Maintenance

Plant finishing services including evaluation and rectification. Examples of current and past work and supply arrangements include the following: Gold Coast Desalination Plant and Western Corridor Recycled Water Project. Metal Maintenance is a lead supplier for maintenance and plant support to Veolia Water Australia...

Desalination Plant Relies On Permalite® Cladding - Permalite

BlueScope Lysaght's Design and Construction business has played a key role in the construction of the first large scale water desalination plant on Australia's eastern seaboard. The Gold Coast Desalination Project was initiated by Gold Coast City Council and is now owned by SureSmart Water whose sole shareholder is...

Urban water prices - Department of Energy and Water Supply

Dec 19, 2017 ... This includes dams, weirs, conventional water treatment plants and climate resilient sources of water from the Gold Coast Desalination Plant and the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme. A 600km reverse flow pipeline network enables drinking water to be transported across the Sunshine Coast to...